> What is helpful is not having a bleeding heart. That's a loaded pejorative, not a meaningful, defined term. It expresses your emotion about it, but doesn't i

> What is helpful is not having a bleeding heart. That's a loaded pejorative, not a meaningful, defined term. It expresses your emotion about it, but doesn't inform us. > Being overly empathetic or sensitive to this just makes it harder 'Overly' is a circular argument - if someone is 'overly' X, then they are by definition 'too much X'. The question is, what is too much? I think avoiding empathy is just weakness and intentional ignorance - ignoring essential consequences of your actions, which results in bad decisions If someone is a good leader, they have the strength to face all the conseqences of their actions and to plan and execute actions that take them into account. If you are engineering a car, and the seatbelt isn't fitting into the seat design, you don't discard the seatbelts and say - 'people who ignore safety make more functional decisions'. Have courage; empathy is a strength.